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Shattered Dreams The Lost and Canceled Space Missions
Title
Shattered Dreams [electronic resource] : The Lost and Canceled Space Missions / Colin Burgess ; foreword by Don Thomas.
ISBN
1496214226
9781496214225
9781496206756
Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"'Shattered Dreams' recounts the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future spaceflight mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 History
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Series
Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: end of a spaceflight dream
Losing the moon: Apollo, the abandoned missions
Earthbound astronaut: scientist-astronaut Duane ("Doc") Graveline
Born beneath the Southern Cross: NASA's Group 6 astronaut Philip K. Chapman
Svetlana's story: Russia's journalist-in-space program and cosmonaut-journalist Svetlana Omelchenko
Unfulfilled ambitions: Lt. Cdr. Stephen D. Thorne, USN
The greatest gesture: oceanographer Robert E. Stevenson
Test pilot and ex-astronaut: Group 5 astronaut Lt. Cdr. John S. Bull, USN
An Indonesian flag in space: payload specialist Pratiwi Sudarmono
Countdown to Skynet: Britain's first astronaut candidates
Patience, persistence, and guts: the extraordinary story of Frank K. Ellis
Vostok lady: pilot and parachutist Marina Popovich
With stars in her eyes: Group 19 mission specialist Patricia Hilliard Robertson
New Hampshire to the new frontier: payload specialist candidate Robert J. Wood
Argentina's only astronaut: Fernando ("Frank") Caldeiro.
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